Monthly Archives: November 2013

Monster.com has posted best practices on preventing sexual harassment. This includes training, responding to complaints appropriately and avoiding and managing situations so they don’t get out of hand.

The LGBT discrimination bill clears the 60 vote hurdle in the United States Senate, which signals the bill will likely pass the Senate. The bill essentially makes LGBT discrimination in employment illegal under federal law.

Polls show that more than 80% of Americans already believe LGBT discrimination is illegal. About a dozen states have laws protecting LGBT from discrimination. Dozens of cities have similar protections. In Missouri, Kansas City and Saint Louis are the two major cities that have LGBT protections – although there are other cities with similar protections. The city laws, however, contain few enforcement mechanisms so while technically illegal, corporations that discriminate against LGBT suffer few to no consequences.

That said, about 9 in 10 corporations have already adopted policies against LGBT discrimination.

The bill will face amendments and a final vote this week. Once it passes the Senate, it will go to the (U.S.) House where Speaker Boehner has indicated he will not support the bill. Speaker Boehner has the power to prevent the bill from going to a vote.

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